Miracleman v1-3 (Moore "The Original Writer" plus various

 Given it's been years since I read these volumes - in their original Eclipse forms anyway, let alone as and when Warrior came out way before that - and I personally mythologise how good they are the time came to actually read them once more....do they still hold true today?

Wow yes.

Worse, so many tropes of modern comics originated in these books, such that the oft-made claims by Moore that superhero comics now are still slavishly following his ideas from that long ago....well it's all true.  He's right.

On the stories themselves, it's weird how much I forgot about the originals - the seeds laid in book one that only come to bear in book three, the names of the other characters, the Qys in their human form, the sheer amount of stuff that I remember being confused about back then but makes perfect sense now.  If nothing else, my appreciation for Moore's writing is now greater than ever.

I didn't want to buy the omnibus as I have the original paperbacks and Marvel hardbacks and I didn't see the point.

But I enjoyed this reread so much that buying the same material again but in a larger format - well, this doesn't seem weird to me.

On another matter.

Thinking of getting back into reviews again after 20 years away from Silver Bullets, and keeping these notes was a way of me working out in my head if I really felt the mojo to do so....or am I just interested in logging what I read and purchase, and try to reduce the backlog to manageable levels whilst not increasing it.

Some level of honesty - this book is in, this book is out.

Better to spend the time reading, than in writing about reading.

Let's see how 2023 goes and when I give up and forget it.